Kristian Kristensen (30) first became known to the Norwegian people when he took part in TV 2’s talent program “The Voice”. Since then, he has enjoyed a successful career, enthralling audiences with delicate and melancholic melodies.
That’s why he used crutches
This has led to the 30-year-old being one of seven artists to be honored in the current season of “Hver gang vi møtes”.
He has so far impressed with innovative interpretations of both Bjørn Eidsvågs (68) “I see”, Freddy Kalas’ (32) “A sign of summer” and Ingebjørg Bratlands (32) «Brother». Caroline Krueger (52), Isaac (24) and Emma Steinbakken (19) also takes part in this season.
Last Saturday it was Kristensen’s turn in the fire, and as guest of honor he chose to be open and vulnerable.
– It was very intense
The 30-year-old spoke about a childhood marked by bullying and loneliness. In addition, he was open about how it felt to lose his mother at a young age.
He has previously told Red carpet that before the recording he had ambitions not to cry on TV. However, he admits that it feels “stupid” to look back on.
Called mum: – Now I’m dying
The feelings nevertheless became strong when he talked about his mother.
– It was very intense. You sit all day and talk about your life. It will be extra close and somewhat magical.
Bjørn Eidsvåg was moved to tears when he had to tell Kristensen that he wanted to perform the song “Du ga mæ williestørke”. He had already understood that the song was about the 30-year-old’s mother.
– I am already touched, Eidsvåg said in the episode.
The desire to shed light on mental health
However, in the emotional and candid episode, there is one session viewers did not get to see. TV 2 has not included Kristensen’s statements about the time with mental health problems and what it was like to deal with the condition of depersonalization, which is a form of a dissociative disorder. It writes The online newspaper.
She doesn’t talk about this
– I had some kind of mental condition and went a little deeper and wanted to shed light on this. But there was no room for that in the programme, says Kristensen to the newspaper.
Press manager at TV 2, Jan-Petter Dahl, tells Dagbladet that the segment has not been “cut out”, but that there is much else that has been “cut into” the programme.
– There are many hours of TV that will become the finished minutes. There is an editorial assessment from time to time about what will be included in the finished programme, he says.
